Endangered species
‘The only option’: Environment minister sued by Wilderness Society
The environmentalist group is taking legal action over allegations that the environment minister failed in her duty to protect threatened wildlife.
- Mike Foley and Bianca Hall
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People ‘just picking up’ starving WA cockatoos as burglars target nests
At what point does a pet become a pest? Meanwhile, here’s why one of Perth’s foremost black cockatoo rehab figures is saying he’s ‘never seen anything like it’.
- Emma Young
- Exclusive
- Victorian environment
Inside the fight to save the last Victorian Highlands forest fairies
Faced with ‘government inaction’ on protecting Australia’s most critically endangered animals, these campaigners are taking matters into their own hands.
- Bianca Hall
Thousands of dead fish, a $37m federal promise and an animal close to extinction: Australia’s ‘salmon war’ gets ugly
A major fish kill in the waters of south-east Tasmania has raised tensions just as the prime minister has backed the industry.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
- Updated
- Science
In extraordinary timing, a second corpse flower has bloomed in Sydney
The incredible botanical double-act comes just two and a half weeks after the flower named Putricia became a global sensation. And this one’s stinkier.
- Angus Dalton
Snipers, recorders – and secrets: Saving the Aussie parrot called ‘birdwatching’s Holy Grail’
For almost 80 years, the night parrot was believed to be extinct. Now: the race to protect a tiny population.
- Nick O'Malley
Behind the scenes at the Botanic Garden, it’s more zoo than greenhouse
Secret doors, smoke plumes, air locks, a million species and shipwrecked treasures: this world-renowned Sydney establishment could be the most biodiverse spot in the country.
- Angus Dalton
Why Australia’s 200m wild rabbit population could soon explode
Scientists have battled the damaging feral pest for decades with world-leading efforts, but that is set to change.
- Mike Foley
Rural rebellion at plan to populate Perth’s urban fringe
Paving Perth’s paddocks is one way the state’s planning to accommodate the projected 2050 population. But will the city’s most biodiverse wetland suffer?
- Emma Young
- Exclusive
- Science
The curtains have closed on Putricia. Here’s what she looks like now
The public can no longer see Sydney’s celebrated corpse flower. But what happens next is extraordinary.
- Angus Dalton
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